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kind are but shadows and

THESEUS The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

kept alive by something akin

— Q.—The water beings as you have described them seem to be nourished and kept alive by something akin to electrical fluids; do the higher orders of the Sidhe seem to be similarly nourished?
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

King Arthur being shipped and

How King Arthur being shipped and lying in his cabin had a marvellous dream and of the exposition thereof.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Knowledge advances by steps and

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

kind are but shadows and

The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

keep awake by shouting aloud

They keep awake by shouting aloud, singing in a dull monotone, or beating a drum.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

known as Baldy Smith and

Men were busy and hard at work everywhere inside our lines, and boats for another pontoon-bridge were being rapidly constructed under Brigadier-General W. F. Smith, familiarly known as "Baldy Smith," and this bridge was destined to be used by my troops, at a point of the river about four miles above Chattanooga, just below the mouth of the Chickamauga River.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

know Albergati by sight and

“I do not know Paradisi, but I know Albergati by sight and by reputation; he is not a senator, but one of the Forty, who at Bologna are Fifty.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

killed a black snake about

Dogvane, in the ramble, had killed a black snake about three feet long, which, by the writhing of its tail, still showed signs of life, and this he kept swinging backwards and forwards in one of his hands, occasionally giving the little butcher a lash with it, who answered the blow by shouts of laughter; while a small green paroquet, that he had bought, was perched on one of his broad shoulders, fastened by a string, or lanyard, round its leg to the black ribbon he wore about his hat.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott

knots and both steamers and

A steam drifter can travel at from 11 to 12 knots, and both steamers and sailers carry a fishing crew of seven men and a boy.
— from The Fishing Industry by William E. (William Edward) Gibbs

kirtle and bodice such as

Get me brown juice for my skin, and a ragged kirtle and bodice, such as the Egyptians wear.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett

kidneys and bladder strictures and

It is particularly useful in confined habit of body, as also diarrhœa, bowel complaints, affections of the kidneys and bladder, such as stone or gravel; inflammatory irritation and cramp of the urethra, cramp of the kidneys and bladder, strictures, and hemorrhoids.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

known as Brownists Seekers and

In reaching this conclusion, however, they had only added themselves to masses of people, known as Brownists, Seekers, and Anabaptists, who had already, by the same route or by others, advanced to the standing-ground of absolute Voluntaryism.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

knowledge attained by Socrates and

Of course it is not denied that important verbal communications relating to the character of God, and the duties we owe to God, were given to the first human pair, more clear and definite, it may be, than any knowledge attained by Socrates and Plato through their dialectic processes, and that these oral revelations were successively repeated and enlarged to the patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament church.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

knocked about by stones and

He ran close to the edge, and looked over, but there was no trace of the animal for fully five minutes; then he saw its poor little body emerge, battered, knocked about by stones and trees at the foot of the great cascade, and at the sight his good sense and right feeling seemed to return to him.
— from Ringfield: A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

Kamma and Bonthuk Savara and

exogamous sept of Kamma and Bonthuk Savara, and a sub-division of Kāpu.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

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